Read the excerpt from roosevelt’s state of the union address.

fortunately, there are only a few americans who place appetite above patriotism. the overwhelming majority realize that the food we send abroad is for essential military purposes, for our own and allied fighting forces, and for necessary in areas that we occupy.

how does the parallel structure of these sentences roosevelt achieve his purpose?

the varied structure serves to keep the audience alert and engaged.
the consistent structure emphasizes roosevelt’s expectations for farmers.
the varied structure reflects the various ways the food could be used.
the consistent structure reinforces how the food sent abroad should be used.

The varied structure serves to keep the audience alert and engaged.

Further Explanation:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first state of the Union Address on January 11, 1944, in which he told people of the United States about the recommendations he has made to the Congress in order to Stabilize the Economy which included New Tax-related bills, a food law as well as measures which government is going to take in order to stabilize currency.  

This address made by the President to the people of the country is known to be the first time when the President was directly addressing to the people as before that all the State of the Union addresses made by the President was delivered in front of the Congress in Person. His State of the Union was quite long this time around and in order to keep people engaged with what all he is saying, the president used varied structures and phrases.

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Subject: English

Keywords: Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union address, United States, Speech, Engaged, Emerged, Stabilize, Parallel, White House.  

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.